Acoustic Rock Explorations: An Introduction to Hybrid Picking

Do you want to improve your abilities by learning hybrid picking—the simultaneous use of a flatpick and fingers? This versatile technique is used across genres—guitarists from Jimmy Page to Jorma Kaukonen have made it an essential part of their acoustic work. This lesson works through a series of graduated exercises, starting with a basic hybrid-picking pattern, and highlighting some of the best applications for this technique: smooth arpeggios, piano-like chords with wide spacing, and singing lead lines.